Error messages now stack at the bottom of the screen, just as background tasks do

A variety of UI improvements, including blob/table list view styling

In Preview 3 we added queue support and expanded on some of the earlier features:

Create / Delete Queues

List Queue Messages

Pop top Queue Message / Create or Copy a Queue Message

Added a configurable Content Type table that sets ContentType when files are uploaded to blob storage

Improved container blob listings to include all artifacts

Added ability to upload table entities (CSV, JSON, XML)

Since this is new software, please exercise appropriate levels of caution and don't take chances with your data. Be sure to back-up any critical or non-replaceable cloud data.

Preview 3 doesn't know how to import account settings from earlier versions of Azure Storage Explorer or other storage tools, so you'll need to enter your storage account names and keys. By the way, it's fine to run Azure Storage Explorer 6 side-by-side with an earlier version.

Reviews for this release

Please, stop trying to fetch the whole data when selecting a table (Table Storage)!
It seems ridiculous!
Tables may be quite large, and usually you just want to run a query!
Please, this is important!
by rfreire
on Nov 20, 2014 at 4:12 PM

You need to NOT load the entire Azure Storage Table when someone clicks on it. It's like reading an entire database when accessing it.
by Sid8264
on Aug 31, 2015 at 8:18 PM

I was looking forward to using this app to export the tables in my storage account and then import them into another storage account. However, the application is unusable with larger tables (my largest one is a few tens of thousands of rows), it crashes when I just select my table in the tree. Also tried using version 4 because it seemed more stable, but I can't export more than 1000 rows and filtering just doesn't work.
by diana_ionita
on Jul 15, 2015 at 10:58 AM

Deletion of accounts is clunky. for instance, if you had delete the storage account in Azure and now you want to delete it in Azure Storage Explorer, you cannot just select it and remove-it tries to connect to it causing a not responding app. Also once it times out, the bad account is highlighted but it actually deletes the account below it- which is what you do not want deleted
by thvdog
on May 27, 2015 at 5:03 PM

This tool is the most useful and awesome piece of software I've downloaded this year! I'm going to release a Windows Store app soon that uploads and downloads image blobs, XML and table entities. The app is for handicapped children and having this tool gives me many ways to test my app, see what's going on, and gives me the confidence to release to the market.
A giant thank you to David Pallmann! I owe ya!
by PhoneRepublic
on Mar 30, 2015 at 5:35 AM

Good tool!
I have an issue to report on windows 8.1. When I delete an azure account the app crashes.
by claudrocker
on Nov 21, 2014 at 7:48 PM

When I downloaded the .zip file to install, Norton warned me abput the file and detect it as malware with High Risk. Threat name is: WS.Reputation.1
by Amir978
on Nov 4 at 1:24 AM

Very unstable. Bob downloads not working at all.
by AJBernard
on Oct 21 at 6:00 AM

Great app, a few bugs though. When you save a filter as default, it does not save.
by ehenry84
on Mar 15 at 5:55 PM

Could you please add the ability to rename blobs as windows doesn't let us include forward slash / before we upload and this is a vital requirement for naming blobs in order to fake nested containers.
by stuartdobson
on Jun 28, 2015 at 8:47 AM

Unable to delete the selected storage account from the list.
Try adding 3-4 storage account. now try removing 2nd storage account. the app tries to delete the first account in the list.
by tgprakash
on Apr 22, 2015 at 10:13 PM

As others have said, completely fails to deal with large tables. Anything over around 10k rows brings to app grinding to a halt.
by ianstapleton
on Mar 10, 2015 at 8:50 AM

Great tool! Hope to see a few more bug fixes addressed. Two issues to report: 1) the application crashes when trying to remove an account. 2) Querying a full entity, potentially when there are millions of rows of data, is definitely not a good feature/function.
Other than that, keep up the good work!
by smillerkyd
on Feb 19, 2015 at 3:40 PM

Lightweight and does what I need for blob storage. It'd be nice to have more bells and whistles, such as "Delete" on the keyboard operating the Delete button and other hot keys. Thanks for putting this together!
by mdekrey
on Feb 5, 2015 at 12:50 AM

I deal with large Azure storage tables. The tool consistently fails to load a table for querying. Please stop loading the whole table and limit it to the first few records or so (or provide a configurable setting)
Other than that, looks good
by puma25ca
on Jan 30, 2015 at 4:50 PM

Love this and all the previous versions, my only gripe with this version is that you cannot set metadata attributes to blobs.
by simlawstu
on Jan 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM

Apparently the entire table is being read when I select it in the tree! This is very bad and makes it completely unusable.
by danzoeller
on Jan 9, 2015 at 8:29 PM

The good: Everything I've used has worked fairly well. Nice tool, I like the layout and functionality. Good work, and it is definitely appreciated.
The bad: When viewing LARGE objects you attempt to retrieve EVERYTHING before displaying it, I get it, I understand, BUT I have tables and containers with MILLIONS of rows. I can't browse those containers at all. I suggest implementing paging of some sort or at least give an option to only pull X entries(entities). That alone would mitigate the problem.
Next steps: Implement Files.
by novaconceptsltd
on Jan 5, 2015 at 6:07 PM

Well, 1 point. DateTime display with my current Windows settings, and can't be saved.
by bentinata
on Nov 19, 2014 at 12:25 PM

This is very useful tool. It's great that you are developing it. CORS support is much appreciated.
by nabog
on Nov 6, 2014 at 8:51 PM

Was able to copy between blobs in different regions as long as I made them public blobs.
Did have a bug issue. When I deleted an Azure storage container but didn't yet remove from Storage Explorer. If I try to connect to the deleted blob from SE it eventually times out, but when I select "Remove" SE bombs.
by tylerwb15
on Oct 22, 2014 at 10:50 PM

1. Downloading blobs does not work -- it says download began, but nothing really happens.
2. UI freezes when I click on containers until the list of blobs is downloaded.
3. Account keys on disk are encrypted with the Rijndael cipher, but the encryption key is right there in the source. This is hardly better than storing them in clear text. Actually, it is worse, since it gives you false sense of security. Windows has a built-in facility for storing secured data: in .NET it is System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData class.
by ikriv
on Oct 18, 2014 at 11:43 PM

great tool. extremely useful and educational as well
by cicorias
on Oct 17, 2014 at 4:28 PM

Otherwise awesome update, but I can't look up at any tables that have thousands of lines in them. It freezes for a while then gives System.OutOfMemoryException.
Also I think it shouldn't automatically query all data in a table when you click it. It can take a long time and often isn't what you want to do.
by Baastax
on Oct 6, 2014 at 10:58 AM

Great new features overall, but unfortunately "Download Selected Blobs" doesn't work for me and some other users. I'll use this new version for most operations and will use an older release for downloading.
by tdutch
on Oct 1, 2014 at 1:26 AM

Super help when trying to develop and new to Azure. Thanks, guys.
by nhwilly
on Sep 17, 2014 at 5:32 PM